Greatest football play ever ???

[David Martin]

12 hours ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

 

Completely agree!  You can’t teach that type of hustle and want to attitude

[Daytripper]

3 hours ago, ArizonaLonghorn said:

Great choice, brings back the memories.

In September 1982 I had just taken a job at a startup company in San Jose, employee # 149.  Many of our engineers and managers had graduated from Stanford, including the founders, and we also had a big contingent from Cal, so there was a lot of back and forth between them before the Big Game.

Stanford, with John Elway at QB, had kicked a FG with 4 seconds left to go ahead 20-19 and this was the ensuing kickoff, which was amazing.

My boss at work was a Cal Bear grad and was coming over for dinner that night.  When he and his GF got there I said "Congratulations on the game.  That was amazing."

He gave me a stink-eye look and said "What the hell are you talking about?  I went to Cal."

"Yeah, that's what I thought.  That was a great finish."

He said he had turned off the TV after "that effing field goal" - when I told him Cal ran the kickoff back for a TD with 5 laterals as the Stanford band ran onto the field he didn't believe me until I turned on the TV and we found a recap on a local channel.

He had missed one of the greatest plays in history.  LOL

 

I didn’t watch it live, I don’t remember if it was on in Houston. I saw the highlights that night on SprtsCenter. Those were the days when you could watch ESPN and I sometimes left it on 24 hours a day